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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
For all those who worry about the state of the United States based on this election, what's going on right now is in line with historical election trends. Bad economy and a Mid term election almost always means huge gains by the party not occupying the Presidency.
However, the tone of the campaign and the way money has been flowing is something to worry about.
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I think the bigger worry is that the economic situation is likely to get worse with Republicans.
They pretend they can cut spending materially to impact the budget, but won't touch entitlements, the military, and they'll extend GWB's temporary tax cuts. What's going to happen is that they're going to try and cut a million here and a million there and actually negatively impact useful local social programs with their trite attempts. They've vowed not to touch the programs that compromise the large percentage of annual gov't spending.
My one prediction is that both parties are looking to cut into social security. The debt commission run by Obama is a covert way of proposing such cuts (ostensibly comprised of "independent experts" who have been exposed as being anything but), and I suspect that given such cover, the republicans will actually go along with it.
Once again, 95% of the US population will kinda get it in the shorts.